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Thor A. HoplandOkay, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a>. Alright, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a>. Hei hei, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Allheimen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Allheimen</a>. I got a question for ya...Do you piss in the shower?Seriously, I need to know. Sincerely.🙏

Thor A. HoplandI've not been active on the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> (or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a>) lately, largely because my healing project has come to it's final stages. So I did the one thing I shouldn't have done, and that's get back on <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a>. Why?<a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a> is a Facebook country. If you want any connections or contact with people, it's all usually done through Facebook.That being said, my dreams of converting people over is still a goal of mine. But, I want to defeat the beast from within.I'll keep you posted.

Thor A. Hopland<a href="https://snabelen.no/@dentyske" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dentyske</a> "get them while they're young".Popularity leads to "monopoly by default", which is what <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> has been fighting for ages.People are creatures of habits, and once they've learned something, facing new learning curves to replace that something is less viable.The problem with dating apps however can't be solved by something like <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> (formerly the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a>), because it requires the privacy that a public protocol can't provide.Nobody has tried to solve this problem.

Thor A. HoplandToday I got new inspiration regarding <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> (aka the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>), when I met an old acquaintance and his friendThe acquaintance tried to call me a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBro</a>. With some salt, and sugar, I explained what a tech bro was, why I despised them and rolled out a simple explanation of what <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> was.His friend was surprised and said he didn't know that such a thing existed. My acquaintance then said he wanted to start his own server.I then realized he's probably not the only one in my city.

Thor A. HoplandYou stare in awe and disbelief as the child one more time, after many attempts, place their hand on the oven element. "*sigh*... that searing pain? Yeah, that's gonna happen again and again."In this analogy I look at the average <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/user" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#user</a> as a child that just doesn't learn, because they keep trusting <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBros</a> instead of going to <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a>.Angry, disappointed users react to <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a>'s upcoming blue check mark verification system - Neowin <a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/angry-disappointed-users-react-to-blueskys-upcoming-blue-check-mark-verification-system/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.neowin.net/news/angry-disappointed-users-react-to-blueskys-upcoming-blue-check-mark-verification-system/</a>

Thor A. Hopland<a href="https://expressional.social/@Koexel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Koexel</a> the biggest problem being that we can't guarantee statistics collected that will depict which focus groups that the ads actually reach.Not only that, but largely people on <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> are largely against <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ads</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCollection</a> - for good reason. I have a solution, but it entails another walled garden - or that platforms can guarantee statistics gathering on a contractual basis.

Thor A. HoplandWhen it comes to <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a>, I'm no literati. I believe there's nothing more homely and common than enjoying a good book. This is where <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Bookwyrm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookwyrm</a> comes in. When it comes to <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> platforms and the various "David v Goliath" grudge matches, none are more ambitious than the ones that seek to dethrone <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bezos</a>.<a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/GoodReads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodReads</a> is owned by <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> and as such is another <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/SiliconeValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconeValley</a> trap. Consider dumping it and trying out Bookwyrm.Welcome - BookWyrm <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bookwyrm.social/</a>

Thor A. HoplandThis is why I got <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Instagram</a> to begin with, to feature <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/StreetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StreetArt</a> from my hometown of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Bergen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bergen</a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a>.Perhaps I'll regain an old hobby, but this time: using <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> via <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pixelfed</a>.<a href="https://pixelfed.social/p/hopland/812775590985380729" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pixelfed.social/p/hopland/812775590985380729</a>

Thor A. Hopland(7/7) In short, we say <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> instead of the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> to truly unlock the potential of what it can be, and that is a communication system built on top of established, decentralized technology, under the umbrella of none other than <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#W3C</a>.By unpoliticizing the word, we've basically given it verbage and actual purpose. Are you going to post content on <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> with <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a>? How will you do it? Single user? Multi user? Actual platform?Giving creators that power can foster magic.

Thor A. Hopland<a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> is the future for the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>, as any other web <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a>, but we must also see how it can be used to create more diversity and opportunity.Of course some of you are twitching, because now you're afraid of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivitySpam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivitySpam</a>. It can't be helped though. At some junction that's just going to be a problem no matter what. The point is Web Social is a tool to interact with other sites, with audiences, as well as users. Communicating like this encompasses it's purpose.

Thor A. HoplandThis way, when I do promotional stuff for the web in future, I'll be taking into account that a domain can be project specific, like say a film that needs promotional static website, and that you don't want to run anything heavy here - because it needs to run for a long time.But you might want the facade of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a>. Like a site having tops 10 posts in it's lifetime - and that's it. All comment functions, all interactive parts of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> are non functional because it was a one off.

Thor A. HoplandThe job of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> is put squarely in the lap of companies that do <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDesign</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/SysOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SysOps</a> - where it always belonged. It's apart of the giant <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Web</a> that we all use everyday.It's more typified, normalized and familiar and can then also be viewed in a utilitarian way, in that <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> provides a public broadcasting function via the web.Yes inbox, yes outbox, but no braining. Stahp!Web Social is a broadcast system for the web, where users could communicate with each other.Das it.

Thor A. HoplandA <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platform</a>, is a platform, is a platform. The user don't care. What is that, a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/CSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSR</a> on <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/serverless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#serverless</a>, an <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/SSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SSR</a> hooked up to a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/VPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VPS</a> - or maybe you even manage your own <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kubernetes</a>. Daring, aren't we?For some people, this is all static. But, they know what the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> is. They know that it's where the crawlers live.When I look at this chart, I think <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> has a ring to it that might project "Other" into the top 5 - maybe even top 3.Why?

Thor A. Hopland(1/7) I have to remember to stop using the hashtag <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a>, because we're supposed to say <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> now instead. Why does that matter? Language and optics go hand in hand, and as times have revealed, federation might not be the silver bullet people believe it to be, nor does it actually condense what the underlying technology is about.We've essentially created a jungle telegraph in protocol form, that can take <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> into a weird and wonderful future.

@pangea_org🌍 <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/Webinar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Webinar</a>  Què és la web social? 📅 6/3 - 11h 📍 <a href="https://meet.pangea.org/websocial2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://meet.pangea.org/websocial2025</a>👉🏾Tens un web i et sents com si parlés al buit còsmic? 👉🏾 Vols fugir de les xarxes privatives i entrar en el Fedivers sense perdre’t? 👉🏾 Somies en un internet lliure i ètic però no saps per on començar?🚀  T’expliquem què és la <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/websocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#websocial</a> i com convertir la web amb WordPress en una eina que comuniqui. Parlarem d'ActivityPub, Fedivers, interoperabilitat i eines lliures.💬 Amb Leandro Navarro, vicepresident de Pangea.

cob<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> Soutenez votre instance pour conserver la liberté sans algo ni rachat de millionnaires.ardaires fascistes dans les années à venir :<a href="https://joinmastodon.org/fr/sponsors" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://joinmastodon.org/fr/sponsors</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Mastodon</a>

Thor A. HoplandOkay, so hear my out <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> - or the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> - also, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/allheimen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#allheimen</a>.Being the goof that I am I intend to dox my Hunchback of Notre Dame appearance in an attempt to create content that is absolutely not ripping off someone else who shares memes on YouTube *cough*Sumito*cough*, but as an attempt to show off Web Social - or specifically <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lemmy</a> .About 20:00/8PM GMT+1 the 8th of January (that's tomorrow) I'll be trying out a format via livestream on <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVuIyvHW_g" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVuIyvHW_g</a>

Thor A. HoplandI'm sorry you guys :( I got a BlueSky account... But, I won't be promoting it here! It's only so I can communicate with <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norwegian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norwegian</a> political organizations and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norwegians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norwegians</a> in general, cus my people are a bunch of materialistic conformists.I'm ofc excluding the good folks of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Snabelen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snabelen</a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/FriBygda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FriBygda</a>.In any case, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> (or the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, or <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Allheimen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Allheimen</a>) is what I want to push, because <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#decentralized</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> is the way forward.My regular zany posting will continue! Until morale improves.

Aris~Migration, exil, voyageDans la mesure où la question de « quitter X/Twitter » refait surface, je vous invite vivement à lire Olivier Ertzscheid (sur <a class="u-url mention" href="https://mamot.fr/@affordance" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@affordance</a>), histoire de donner un peu de substance.<blockquote>Pour toutes celles et ceux qui ne peuvent ou ne veulent pas quitter X, il reste la possibilité de prendre racine ailleurs, l’hypertexte et nos hyper-relations et nos hyper-affects le permettent, heureusement. Je ne crois pas que Thread ou Bluesky aient vocation à devenir un de ces ailleurs pérenne mais je n’ai aucune certitude du contraire non plus. </blockquote><blockquote>J’ai par contre l’absolue conviction que Mastodon, par son architecture décentralisée, par ses règles de modération (différentes selon les « instances » que vous choisirez), par les inter-relations qu’il permet, par son ancrage dans des formes de friction nécessaires en amont des interactions pour en diminuer la toxicité le plus souvent d’abord virale, j’ai la conviction que Mastodon est un biotope d’avenir à préserver et à habiter.</blockquote><blockquote>Mais ne venez pas sur Mastodon en attendant d’y retrouver les interactions, les relations ou même les affects qui étaient les vôtres sur Twitter ou sur X (ou même sur Thread ou Bluesky), car seule la déception serait alors au rendez-vous.</blockquote>Car c’est bien là la véritable question : aller voir ailleurs, ou se perdre dans la nostalgie de Twitter.Illustration : « Mother Mushroom with her children », vers 1900, pas Edward Okuń. Cela n’a rien avoir avec l’article, encore que... puisqu’il est question de forêt et d’arbre.↪️ X et son exode. Comment quitter une forêt lorsque l'on est un arbre : <a href="https://affordance.framasoft.org/2024/11/x-et-son-exode-comment-quitter-une-foret-lorsque-lon-est-un-arbre/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://affordance.framasoft.org/2024/11/x-et-son-exode-comment-quitter-une-foret-lorsque-lon-est-un-arbre/</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/x" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#X</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/xitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xitter</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/threads" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Threads</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tmprs.net/tag/websocial" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a>

Thor A. HoplandIt doesn't seem like it's viable unless you implement a sort of social score to just weed out malicious or incompetent users, giving a "reviewer" status to people who can take part in "moderating the moderators" and revoking it from people who are disqualified - or who becomes disqualified.I know it sounds bonkers, but implemented on the vendor side - like a publisher, blog, game platform, etc - rather than as a part of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WebSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebSocial</a> fabric means it's isolated and innocuous. Gilded users, really.

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